Fever in the Earth
Publisher: Blue Oak Press
Published: December 1977
Place of publication: Newcastle, California
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780912950334
Description: From Author's Note: Some fifteen years were to pass between the beginning of work on FEVER IN THE EARTH and its completion as a published volume—with thirteen of those years being devoted to its writing. The book was begun in late autumn, 1962, as a direct result of a conversation ... with Jim Hall..., my M.F.A. advisor at the University of Oregon.... ...[A] first draft being completed in March and a second ... in June[,] From that point onward the volume went through numerous full revisions—sometimes starting from scratch, sometimes refining and reorganizing the whole. Sometimes the book lay untouched for as much as a year or more; but always I was drawn back to it. Characters were eliminated. Characters came into being. Finally about 1970, I began to experiment with the story as narrative poetry; and in the summer of 1974 I gave in to the inherently poetic nature of much of the material and so began the composition of the long narrative as it now exists. ... October 24, 1977, Newcastle, California
Table of contents: title: 11  ONE: Return to Deer Creek; title: 27  TWO: The Journal of Abram McCain; title: 55  THREE: The interlude of Isaac; title: 83  FOUR: Iphigenia; title: 105  FIVE: The Breaking; title: 127  SIX: A Progress of Spring; title: 151  SEVEN: The Yellow Dancer; title: 183  EIGHT: Summer Rainstorm; title: 211  NINE: Against the Current; title: 229  TEN: Numunana Lives in the Inyo; title: 257  ELEVEN: I Am My Father; title: 281  TWELVE: The Hunt